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unusual facts about Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi



Anthony Parel

He has authored and edited a number of books, on subjects including Thomas Aquinas, Niccolò Machiavelli, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and South Asian history.

Dry day

In the context of the Alcohol laws of India, a day such as the birthday of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi when alcohol sales are legally forbidden to the public (though Gentlemen's Clubs have provisions for sales indoors).

Gopal Chandra Mukhopadhyay

In 1947, Mohandas Gandhi came to Kolkata and urged the Hindus to harbour any ill feeling towards the Muslims and appealled to them to surrender all their arms to him.

James Marley

In September 1931, Marley was amongst those who welcomed Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi at Folkstone when he visited the United Kingdom for the second Round Table conference.

Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site

The statue of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was donated by The Indian Council for Cultural Relations, India, in collaboration with The National Federation of Indian American Associations and The Embassy of India, USA.

MC Yogi

In 2012, MC Yogi produced a video in celebration of Gandhi Jayanti (October 2, the birth of Mahatma Gandhi).

Movement for Compassionate Living

MCL cite John Woolman, Mahatma Gandhi, Tom Regan, Robert Hart, Helen and Scott Nearing, Richard St. Barbe Baker, Adele Curtis and Henry Bailey Stevens as examples of compassionate living individuals.

Religious orientation

Examples of people who have attained a quest orientation are Gautama Buddha, Malcolm X, and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

Shankar Pamarthy

His caricatures on prominent people like Barack Obama, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, A. R. Rahman, Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, Mike Tyson, M. S. Subbulakshmi, Abdul Kalam, Charlie Chaplin, Dalai Lama, Saddam Hussein, Fidel Castro, Luciano Pavarotti, Yasser Arafat, Aung San Suu Kyi etc., received wide accolades and prominence to him.

Sitabuldi Fort

Mahatma Gandhi was imprisoned in the fort from 10 April to 15 May 1923.

SS Rajputana

Onboard he met with Mahatma Gandhi who was sailing to the second Round Table Conference in London.

West Bradford, Lancashire

Mahatma Gandhi stayed here (Heys Farm Guest House) in 1931 when he came to visit the cotton mills of Lancashire.


see also

Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar

He is most well known as the author of an eight-volume biography of Mahatma Gandhi, titled Mahatma: Life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

He gained international notability for writing the eight-volume biography of Mahatma Gandhi, titled Mahatma: Life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.